The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... agreeable Turn . It is impoffi- ble for us , who live in the latter Ages of the World , to make Obfervations in Criticism , Morality , or in any Art or Science , which have not been touched upon by others . We have little elfe left us ...
... agreeable Turn . It is impoffi- ble for us , who live in the latter Ages of the World , to make Obfervations in Criticism , Morality , or in any Art or Science , which have not been touched upon by others . We have little elfe left us ...
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... an Apoftate ! how loft to all that's gay and agreeable ! To be married I find is to be buried alive ; I can't conceive it more dismal to be shut up in a Vault Sto ⚫ to converse with the Shades of my Ancestors , The SPECTATOR . No.254 .
... an Apoftate ! how loft to all that's gay and agreeable ! To be married I find is to be buried alive ; I can't conceive it more dismal to be shut up in a Vault Sto ⚫ to converse with the Shades of my Ancestors , The SPECTATOR . No.254 .
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... agreeable , and different enough from ' what I have here defcribed : But , Child , I am afraid thy Brains are a little difordered with Romances and Novels : After fix Months Marriage to hear thee talk of ' Love , and paint the Country ...
... agreeable , and different enough from ' what I have here defcribed : But , Child , I am afraid thy Brains are a little difordered with Romances and Novels : After fix Months Marriage to hear thee talk of ' Love , and paint the Country ...
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... agreeable to his Tafte : He's almoft the End of my Devotions ; half my Prayers are for his Happiness- I love to talk of him , and ne- ver hear him named but with Pleasure and Emotion . I am your Friend , and wish you Happiness , but am ...
... agreeable to his Tafte : He's almoft the End of my Devotions ; half my Prayers are for his Happiness- I love to talk of him , and ne- ver hear him named but with Pleasure and Emotion . I am your Friend , and wish you Happiness , but am ...
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... agreeable Converfation has brought him to enjoy many fober happy Hours when even I am fhut out , and my dear Master is entertained only with his own Thoughts . Thefe Things , dear Madam , will be lafting ' Satisfactions , when the fine ...
... agreeable Converfation has brought him to enjoy many fober happy Hours when even I am fhut out , and my dear Master is entertained only with his own Thoughts . Thefe Things , dear Madam , will be lafting ' Satisfactions , when the fine ...
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Página 199 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Página 101 - The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are...
Página 125 - ... as created beings ; and that, in the other, Adam and Eve are confounded with their sons and daughters. Such little...
Página 194 - Moses in those books from whence our author drew his subject, and to the Holy Spirit who is therein represented as operating after a particular manner in the first production of nature.
Página 132 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Página 201 - In short, if we look into the conduct of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, as the great fable is the soul of each poem, so to give their works an agreeable variety, their episodes are so many short fables, and their similes so many short episodes ; to which you may add, if you please, that their metaphors are so many short similes.
Página 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Página 250 - Providence with respect to man. He has represented all the abstruse doctrines of predestination, freewill and grace, as also the great points of incarnation and redemption, (which naturally grow up in a poem that treats of the fall of man) with great energy of expression, and in a clearer and stronger light than I ever met with in any other writer.
Página 197 - The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry, which rises in a great measure from its describing the places where they were worshipped, by those beautiful marks of rivers, so frequent among the ancient poets. The author had doubtless in this place Homer's catalogue of ships, and Virgil's list of warriors, in his view. The characters of Moloch and Belial...
Página 198 - Lucian relates concerning this river, viz. that this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; •which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains out of which this stream rises.